Topics

Representatives of Major League Soccer and its players union are meeting with a federal mediator this week in a last-ditch effort to complete a new collective bargaining agreement before the 2015 MLS season opens Friday. A league spokesman said Monday that both sides met at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services in Washington on Sunday, with more talks scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. "We are continuing our discussions with the MLS players union to finalize a new collective bargaining agreement,” MLS Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott said in a statement. “Although there are open issues, both the league and the union are working hard to reach agreement. ...

Related "Chicago Fire" Articles

Representatives of Major League Soccer and its players union are meeting with a federal mediator this week in a last-ditch effort to complete a new collective bargaining agreement before the 2015 MLS season opens Friday.
A league spokesman said Monday...

If there's one thing Major League Soccer absolutely, positively cannot afford this season, it's a strike by players.
So guess what the league is looking at only days before Friday's scheduled season opener between the Galaxy and Chicago Fire at StubHub...

Fire owner Andrew Hauptman said he shares fan frustrations over another difficult season and that a turnaround under new on-field staff this season wasn't expected to occur overnight.
"(But) the path that we're on is the right one," Hauptman...

While much of MLS remains focused on the current playoffs, for the Fire it's already 2015.
Next year's roster, contract renewals or rejections, potential international signings and protected players in an upcoming MLS expansion draft have dominated...

There were boos and catcalls from the crowd as the Fire played to yet another tie Sunday in the waning days of their latest disappointing season.
The 0-0 draw with visiting Montreal extended the Fire's all-time league record for ties in a season to 18 as...

The Fire will renew acquaintances with one of their former stars Sunday in their lone meeting of the season with the Houston Dynamo.
Striker DaMarcus Beasley, 32, who played for the Fire from 2000-2004 before departing on an international career,...

This week, hundreds of millions of people around the globe will be watching the World Cup, cheering on their nations' teams as they compete in the monthlong soccer tournament. Plenty of local bars and hangouts are hosting viewing parties or offering...

So many people turned out for the official Chicago viewing party for this week’s U.S. vs. Ghana World Cup match that organizers have moved Sunday’s U.S.-Portugal viewing party to a larger field in Grant Park.
Monday’s party packed thousands into Arvey...

It has been 26 years since the Sting's final game and three full decades past their last championship.Yet fond memories of Chicago's pioneering pro soccer team still echo in the city's sports memory bank. The iconic bee. Black and gold uniforms. Short...